Originally Posted by
Horace
Most Marriott brands do not provide breakfast as a brand standard.
True, but most of the main brands in the portfolio do. When I think of the core legacy Marriott brands, I'm mainly thinking of FF, SHS, RI, TPS, CY, Marriott, Ren, and JW.
CY is the stark outlier.
Marriott can bolt on 25 new brands that don't provide breakfast, but until these brands have hundreds of properties each and become an integral part of my overall Marriott experience, it doesn't really matter.
Also, most of those new (or new-to-Marriott) brands have some sort of story about why they don't provide breakfast. I may not like it much, but I at least (somewhat) understand it. Not getting breakfast at MVCI isn't likely to make me switch to some other brand. But not getting breakfast at CY is the absolute #1 driver of my Hilton Garden Inn activity.
If CY had provided breakfast all of these years, it's very possible that I have minimal interaction with HHonors at all, since I prefer all of the higher-end Marriotts over the higher-end Hilton brands.